A band whose name means "Five from the Vistula", playing in the years 1967 - 1969.
It was formed at the House of Culture in Pleszów, Nowa Huta, which was also the band's base. In 1969 the band moved to the club on the Złota Jesień estate. After Andrzej Truszewski left for the army, the band changed its name to Popioły ("Ashes"). After Jerzy Szwejkowski left for the Korona club - for the band Jupitery - the group Popioły, at the urging of one of the teachers, moved its activity to the Electrical Technical School by the reservoir in Nowa Huta.

  Line-up:

lead guitar - Jacek Studnicki / Andrzej Jarek
bass guitar - Ryszard Wilk / Jerzy Szwejkowski / Zbigniew Szczepanowski
rhythm guitar, keyboards - Andrzej Truszewski
drums - Kazimierz Malec / Zenon Rybarczyk
trumpet - Kazimierz Rerutkiewicz
vocals - Andrzej Olkuski

1969
      After a change of line-up the band - at the suggestion of Zenon Rybarczyk - changed its name to POPIOŁY. In fact this was already the third line-up of Popioły. The first one was formed at the Korczak House of Culture in 1964 and consisted of: Zbigniew Sałata, Zenon Rybarczyk, Konrad Ratyński.
      The second line-up was the band Ryszardy, renamed in 1967 after most of the Ryszardy members had left. The name was brought back by Konrad Ratyński.

  Line-up:

lead/rhythm guitar - Andrzej Jarek
bass guitar - Zbigniew Szczepanowski
drums - Zenon Rybarczyk
vocals - Andrzej Olkuski